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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">1. Bill McKibben looks at the resistance to the energy transition, and finds sources personal, local, regional, and nationally organized. The momentum for the transition is irresistible but time is short.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">2. The ride is rough, but the cart appears to be heading downhill, away from fossil fuels, and is picking up speed. Among other pleasures in the selections, the Electric Viking profiles the year’s direction
in EU energy production in a 12-minute video. </span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2022/12/28/2022-the-year-the-transition-kicked-into-gear/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://climatecrocks.com/2022/12/28/2022-the-year-the-transition-kicked-into-gear/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">3. CNBC supplies a handy summary of US power production, past, present, and planned. It observes that cultural inertia is a large factor in slowing the energy transition.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">4. Reviews of Avatar 2: The Way of Water range from admiration to dismissal. Philosopher Rupert Read admires its earth ethic.
</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/avatar-2-the-way-of-water-rethink-relationship-planet-earth" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/avatar-2-the-way-of-water-rethink-relationship-planet-earth</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">5. The FL legislature has passed reforms meant to moderate insurers’ litigation costs. Property insurance is still going to increase as the climate crisis takes hold. Few other states are immune to the rising
insurance costs. </span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2022/12/30/in-florida-insurers-on-edge-due-to-climate-disasters-even-with-reforms/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://climatecrocks.com/2022/12/30/in-florida-insurers-on-edge-due-to-climate-disasters-even-with-reforms/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5, 99, 193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>One solution to the problem would be to build more robust homes in more secure locations. Tiny houses on wheels may be vulnerable
to nasty weather, but small houses on firm foundations need not be. They may even require less insurance.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">6. A look at the year’s climate events and actions in the US allows us to appreciate what was accomplished in spite of greed and ignorance (and some things, such as growth in commercial gas, accomplished
by representatives of those two). Increasingly, we had to act despite weather disasters and international disruptions. Challenges lie ahead.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">7. Finally, we took at least six actions in 2022 which drew us</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">toward zero emissions and a healthier world.
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